Agenda

Writers Guild Governance Framework

Introduction

Frogmonkee: WG is coordination unit w/in bDAO. Need governance mechanisms

• Pupil → Apprentice → Scribe
• Treasury Management
  • Term limits
    • No term limits, but temp check poll at the end of every season to ratify existing multi-sig signers (3 of 5 signers)
    • If voted no, triggers election
      • If not comfortable voting no, can ask gov coordinator to act on your behalf. Confidential
      • Triggers election process
  • Election
    • Can't nominate self, need to be nominated by Scribe
      • Only Scribes can be nominated (not Pupil/Apprentice)
      • Nominees can Accept or not
      • Nominees must provide description (Who they are and what presence you have had/contributed in the guild/DAO, why they want to be elected)
      • Governance coordinator will reach out to nominees and inform them of the process as a part of their responsibilities
    • Seven day election process
      • Three-day nomination period
      • Followed by four-day voting period
        • Via poll (scribes only)
    • Polls in the Writer's guild Polls channel
      • Ranked Choice vs Majority
      • Table this for now (Don't have tools necessary ATM for Anonymous and ranked choice)
  • Inter-Season transitions
    • Voluntary retirement
      • Signer should inform the Governance coordinator
      • One week grace period
      • Triggers an election process (3 day nomination period, 4 day election period)
    • Involuntary retirement
      • Any Scribe can make proposal to remove, which needs to be seconded by another Scribe (can be outsourced to gov coordinator)
        • Sam, Hiro in agreement
        • Want to implement anonymous votes eventually
        • Send information and movement to Governance coordinator
          • Guild Coordinator is authority if Governance coordinator is being moved against
      • If relational (personalities/soft skill), then ombuds gets involved before election process is triggered
        • May be possibly resolved through soft management
        • Inform all parties (Scribes, Gov coordinator, member in question, ombuds)
        • Let ombuds make a recommendation and guild members will make a response
        • Public discussion after recommendation
      • If transgression (financial/collusion) then direct to vote
        • Follows election process
      • Ombuds referral
        • more relational in nature, if it's about personalities etc. then referral
        • if transgression is financial or involves collusion, automatic removal and reelection
          • is that a public airing?
            • Ap0ll0517 and Hiro thinks that's important
      • Should we delineate transgressions vs relational? (Tomahawk)
        • Ombuds process for transgressions as well
      • Writers Guild - Ombuds Liason? (Sam)
        • Out of scope for now
        • Governance coordinator should serve this purpose, at least for now
• Office of guild coordination
  • Outline elected roles and responsibilities
    • Coordinator
    • Talent Scout
    • Secretary
  • Flows for adding more roles?
  • The Election and Removal of Members to and from Office
    • Quorom?
    • Time period for dispute + election
• Newsletter governance
• Mirror vs medium
• Bounties
• Blue sky: Moving governance on chain
  • subDAO

Notes

Action Items

What does the election process actually look like? alternative to sesh bot?